Robert Woof (scholar)
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Dr Robert Woof OBE |
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| Born |
Robert Samuel Woof 20 April 1931 Lancaster, England |
| Died | 7 November 2005 (aged 74) Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Scholar |
| Children | Emily Woof |
Dr. Robert Samuel Woof (20 April 1931 – 7 November 2005) was an English scholar, most famous for having been the first Director of the Wordsworth Trust and Museums Director of the Wordsworth Museum at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Lake District, Cumbria. Dove Cottage is known as the centre for British Romanticism movement, having been the home of William Wordsworth from 1799–1808.
The actress Emily Woof is his daughter.
Born in Lancaster, Robert Samuel Woof was the youngest of three children; their father was bailiff of Home Farm, part of the Royal Albert Institution, Lancaster
Early years: attended Scotforth School and Lancaster Royal Grammar School
1949 on a cycling tour: first visit to Dove Cottage
1953: graduation from Pembroke College, Oxford, where he had studied with a scholarship
1958: married Pamela Moore (two sons, two daughters)
1958–1961: doctorate with Goldsmith Travelling Fellowship as a lecturer at University of Toronto, PhD thesis on 'The Literary Relations of Wordsworth and Coleridge 1795–1803'
1961–1962: Lord Adams of Ennerdale Fellow
1962–1971: University of Newcastle upon Tyne Lecturer
1971–1992: Reader in English Literature at University of Newcastle upon Tyne
1983–1984: Leverhulme Fellow
1974–1989: Honorary Keeper of collections of books, manuscripts and paintings at Dove Cottage
1978–1995: Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of Dove Cottage
1982–1988: Vice-Chairman, Drama Panel, Arts Council
1985–1986: Acting chairman, Drama Panel, Arts Council
1983–1984: Vice-Chairman, Literature Panel
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